Chapter 271: The Agreement

“Mm?”

An Yu tilted her head in confusion.

She didn’t seem to understand what the system girl was saying.

But why did she feel that the system girl sounded so helpless?

She didn’t think she had done anything wrong.

Just as An Yu was puzzled, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.

“Little Yu’er, it’s me. Open the door~”

Jiang Qinghe’s gentle voice came from outside.

An Yu didn’t like that voice at all.

Ever since Jiang Qinghe had come to drag her to the Recognition Banquet last time, she hadn’t taken the initiative to find her again.

An Yu had no idea what she wanted this time.

Although her heart was full of doubts, An Yu still walked to the door.

Her door was locked.

This had always been her habit.

Except for that one day, An Yu had always kept her door locked.

Perhaps this was also the reason Jiang Qinghe still knocked.

“Little Yu’er? Hurry up and open the door… I have something to tell you. Something very important.”

Seeing that An Yu wasn’t opening the door, Jiang Qinghe’s voice grew darker.

Her face changed with terrifying speed.

An Yu blinked expressionlessly.

Her hand, which had already been placed on the doorknob, was about to pull back.

But there was no helping it.

She was living under someone else’s roof.

She couldn’t pretend she wasn’t home.

An Yu’s palm moved slightly.

She still opened the door to her room.

“Mm~ Why so slow? What were you doing, Little Yu’er?”

Outside the door, Jiang Qinghe looked at An Yu with a smile on her face.

However, that smile looked even faker than usual.

“Nothing.”

An Yu shook her head expressionlessly and said nothing more.

“Is that so…”

Jiang Qinghe smiled.

She didn’t dwell on this matter for long.

Instead, she grabbed An Yu’s wrist and led her into the room.

Once they entered An Yu’s room, Jiang Qinghe’s expression changed.

She still had a smile on her face, but it looked as though it was frozen there.

“All right, Little Yu’er. Now it’s just the two of us here. Stop hiding it. Let’s talk honestly.”

Jiang Qinghe’s smile grew even more fake.

Her eyes also looked somewhat empty.

She looked somewhat similar to An Qing.

But unfortunately, An Yu didn’t understand what she was saying.

An Yu tilted her head expressionlessly and stared at Jiang Qinghe without saying a word.

Jiang Qinghe’s smile was starting to become difficult to maintain.

A trace of irritation flashed through her eyes.

Her voice also grew a few degrees colder.

“What exactly do you think about An Qing and the Chen family’s matter?”

Day after day, she couldn’t see An Yu doing anything at all.

An Yu disappearing wasn’t to contact people from the Chen family.

Instead, she went to play with that useless blond girl.

The post from the day before yesterday had become too popular.

It was so popular that even Jiang Qinghe had noticed it.

Although she didn’t have any special love for her daughter, Jiang Qinghe still recognized the girl in the photo at a glance.

Only then did she realize that An Yu leaving home wasn’t to do what she thought was proper business.

Instead, she was simply playing with another girl.

On top of that, Chen Guang had come to the An family to propose an engagement with An Qing.

How could Jiang Qinghe not be anxious?

“……What?!”

An Yu raised her head.

For the first time, she met Jiang Qinghe’s gaze directly.

Jiang Qinghe was also seeing An Yu’s amber-colored eyes seriously for the first time.

Inside them, she couldn’t see any schemes.

Only complete confusion.

“Don’t tell me you have no thoughts at all? It’s about Chen Guang and An Qing’s engagement. Little Yu’er, you…”

Jiang Qinghe’s tone was filled with disbelief.

She seemed to have never imagined that An Yu could be this simple.

“It shouldn’t be… It really shouldn’t be? How could she know nothing at all? Her Little Yu’er shouldn’t be full of schemes, secretly planning everything behind the scenes, right? Or is it that even Little Yu’er deceived her too?”

“No.”

An Yu blinked expressionlessly.

What thoughts could she possibly have about the male and female leads’ matters.

“You’re serious?!”

Jiang Qinghe was starting to lose control.

The gentleness on her face had completely disappeared.

Her entire being was in a state of panic.

“Mm.”

An Yu nodded.

She actually wanted to ask Jiang Qinghe where she didn’t look serious.

Jiang Qinghe stared with wide eyes at the innocent-looking An Yu.

An incredulous smile appeared on her face.

“Heh… Hehe~”

She subconsciously stepped back again and again.

Her arms were also trembling nonstop.

“Impossible… This is impossible…”

“I understand now. Little Yu’er, you even deceived me? There’s no need. You don’t have to pretend. I’m on your side!”

As her words fell, Jiang Qinghe raised her head and stared fixedly at An Yu.

She tried to find some clues in her eyes.

Seeing her reaction, An Yu furrowed her brows in confusion.

What exactly was going on with Jiang Qinghe?

What on earth was she talking about?

An Yu couldn’t understand a single word.

“You… what kind of expression is that?”

It was as though she was meeting An Yu for the first time.

Jiang Qinghe stared with wide eyes, her pupils trembling violently.

That reaction looked as though…

“On the day of the Recognition Banquet, you clearly did very well. Afterward, because I trusted you, I left you alone… Didn’t we agree that you would win everything? Now An Qing is already going to be engaged to the young master of the Chen family. How can you remain so indifferent and spend every day playing with some random people?”

Looking at the somewhat deranged Jiang Qinghe, An Yu subconsciously took a step back.

Then she secretly asked the system in her heart.

“System, what’s going on with Jiang Qinghe?”

The system quickly recalled the original novel’s plot.

Unfortunately, the original novel was written from An Qing’s perspective.

Until Jiang Qinghe exited the story, this kind of plot had never appeared.

It was worth mentioning that in the original novel, Jiang Qinghe had supported An Yu from beginning to end.

According to An Qing’s understanding of this couple, Jiang Qinghe should have been the type who went whichever way the wind blew.

But now it clearly wasn’t the case.

She seemed to still choose to support An Yu even now that An Qing had clearly changed.

But why?

Wasn’t An Qing her biological daughter?

[Responding to Host. The system is currently investigating. The reason is currently unknown.]

An Yu’s action of stepping back completely enraged Jiang Qinghe.

Her emotions could no longer be maintained.

She seemed somewhat on the verge of collapse.

Jiang Qinghe stepped forward and grabbed An Yu’s shoulders, preventing her from escaping.

“Little Yu’er… An Yu, tell me what you’ve done. Don’t joke with me!”

An Yu furrowed her brows.

Pain kept coming from her wrist due to Jiang Qinghe’s grip.

“What exactly are you talking about.”

An Yu’s face was full of confusion.

She wanted to struggle, but she wasn’t as strong as Jiang Qinghe.

“No… Impossible. How could you not know? Didn’t we agree?!”

Jiang Qinghe shouted in collapse.

She seemed to no longer care about anything else.

“Don’t tell me… Don’t tell me you didn’t do anything at all and just watched An Qing hook up with the Chen family?”

Jiang Qinghe muttered.

Her eyes looked somewhat unfocused.

“You… don’t you want to have everything in the An family and marry into the Chen family?”